Canadian newspaper advertisement for the film “The Man I Married" (1940)
Extent and Medium
Overall: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm)
Creator(s)
- Ken Sutak (Compiler)
- 20th Century Fox (Production Company)
Biographical History
The Cinema Judaica Collection consists of more than 1,200 objects relating to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical subjects, from 1923 to 2000, from the United States, Europe, Israel, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina. The collection was amassed by film memorabilia collector Ken Sutak, to document Holocaust-and Jewish-themed movies of the World War II era and the postwar years. The collection includes posters, lobby and photo cards, scene stills, pressbooks, trade ads, programs, magazines, books, VHS tapes, DVDS, and 78 rpm records. Sutak organized these materials into two groups, “Cinema Judaica: The War Years, 1939–1949” and “Cinema Judaica: The Epic Cycle, 1950–1972” and, in conjunction with the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum (now the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum in New York), organized exhibitions on these two themes in 2007 and 2008. Sutak subsequently authored companion books with the same titles.
Archival History
The advertisement was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Ken Sutak and Sherri Venokur.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ken Sutak and Sherri Venokur
Scope and Content
Canadian advertisement for the American feature film “I Married a Nazi,” released by 20th Century-Fox in August 1940. “The Man I Married” was based on the novel “I Married A Nazi,” published serially in “Liberty” magazine. The film focuses on an American woman who moves with her German husband and their child back to his home country in 1938. Once in Germany, the husband gets increasingly involved in the Nazi party. “The Man I Married” included a Jewish leading character, and used dialog to allude to the predicament of Jews in Nazi Germany. The film was originally given the same title as the novel, but after the anti-Nazi films “Four Sons” and “The Mortal Storm” drew criticism and economic threats from the German consul-general, the studio decided to mask the anti-Nazi film under a different name. Officials in Canada had no such concerns, as the country had entered the war in September 1939, and the film was released there under the original name. This object is one of more than 1,200 objects in the Cinema Judaica Collection of materials related to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical themes.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Restrictions on use. Copyright status is unknown.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Rectangular newspaper clipping, printed in black ink on white newsprint, advertising the film “I Married a Nazi” (also called “The Man I Married”). At the top, white text is printed in the center of a black bar with a curved right end. Below it is a white rectangle with a block of small, black text overlaid on a large black rectangle with white text. Also layered over the top half of the large black rectangle is an image of the female lead, from the waist up, and the heads of two male characters. At the bottom of the advertisement is a smaller white rectangle with black text, overlaid on a narrow black bar. The paper is slightly discolored throughout.
People
- Russell, Johnnie, 1933-
- Lederer, Francis, 1899-2000.
- Ouspenskaya, Maria, 1876-1949.
- Kruger, Otto, 1885-1974.
- Bennett, Joan, 1910-1990.
- Stossel, Ludwig.
- Sten, Anna, 1908-1993.
- Nolan, Lloyd, 1902-1985.
Subjects
- National socialism in motion pictures.
- United States.
- Nazis in motion pictures.
- Film adaptations.
- Canada.
- Historical films.
- Germans in motion pictures.
- Jews in motion pictures.
- Germany.
- Immigrants in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--History--20th century.
Genre
- Books and Published Materials
- Object
- Promotional materials.